Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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